(全新整理)10月自考试题及答案解析英国文学选读浙江试卷及答案解析

浙江省2018年10月高等教育自学考试

英国文学选读试题

课程代码：10054

Ⅰ.Choose the relevant match from Column B for each item in Column A.(10%)

Section A

A B

(1)Daniel Defoe ( ) A. The Pilgrim’s Progress

(2)Charles Dickens ( ) B. The Silver Box

(3)John Bunyan ( ) C. Robinson Crusoe

(4)Richard Sheridan ( ) D. A Tale of Two Cities

(5)John Galsworthy ( ) E. The School for Scandal

Section B

A B

(1) Jane Eyre( ) A. Irene

(2) The Man of Property( ) B. Mr. Rochester

(3) The Merchant of Venice( ) C. Satan

(4) Paradise Lost( ) D. Sophia Western

(5) The History of Tom Jones ( ) E. Portia

Ⅱ.Complete each of the following statements with a proper word or a phrase according to the textbook.(5%)

1. In the era of the Renaissance, the humanists made attempts to get rid of those old ______ ideas in medieval Europe.

2. The ______ century was an age of prose. A group of excellent writers, such as Swift, Fielding were produced.

3. English ______ is generally said to have begun in 1798 with the publication of Wordsworth and Coleridge’s Lyrical Ballads.

4. In the Victorian period, the______ as a literary genre became the most widely read and the most vital and challenging expression of progressive thought.

5. The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot is a poem concerned with the spiritual breakup of a modern

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______ in which human life has lost its meaning, significance and purpose.

Ⅲ.Each of the following statements is followed by four alternative answers. Choose the one that would best complete the statement.(48%)

1. During the Renaissance period many European humanist thinkers and scholars did not make efforts to do the following except( )

A. to make reformation of those old feudalist ideas in medieval Europe.

B. to introduce new ideas that expressed the interests of the feudalist.

C. to exalt human nature which is capable of individual perfection.

D. to prevent the purity of the early church from the corruption of the Roman Catholic Church.

2. About Shakespeare’s romantic comedies, which of the following is not true? ( )

A. He takes an optimistic attitude toward love and truth.

B. The romantic elements are brought into full play.

C. He praises the patriotic spirit when engaging intellectual excitement and emotion.

D. His youthful Renaissance spirit of jollity is fully reflected.

3. As a Renaissance humanist, Shakespeare ( )

A. is against religious persecution and racial discrimination, against social inequality and the corrupting influence of gold and money.

B. holds that literature should be a combination of beauty, kindness and truth, and should reflect nature and reality.

C. gives faithful reflection of the social realities of his time through his works.

D. all of the above.

4. Which of the following statements about Paradise Lost is true? ( )

A. Adam and Eve were driven out of Paradise for their conspiracy with Satan.

B. The writer intended to expose the ways of Satan and to justify the ways of God to men.

C. Satan, as a rebel to God, was finally defeated and surrendered.

D. Satan was finally reconciled with God.

5. The 18th-century England is known as ( )

A. the Age of Puritanism

B. the Age of Reason

C. the Era of Capitalism

D. the Age of Glory

6. Why did the enlighteners regard education the major means to improve the society and the

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